Cellular Structures in Instabilities: Proceedings of the Meeting “Structures cellulaires dans les instabilités - périodicité, défauts, turbulence de phase” Held at Gif-sur-Yvette, France, June 20–22,1983

Cellular structures in instabilities : An introduction....Pages 1-32
Rayleigh-Benard instability : Experimental study of the wavenumber selection....Pages 33-42
Wavelength selection and pattern localization in buckling problems....Pages 43-55
Wavenumber selection in buckling experiments....Pages 56-62
Effect of boundaries on periodic patterns....Pages 63-74
Cell number selection in Taylor-Couette flow....Pages 75-83
Wavelength selection through boundaries in 1-D cellular structures....Pages 84-103
Wavenumber selection in Rayleigh-Benard convective structure....Pages 104-126
Convection patterns in large aspect ratio systems....Pages 127-128
Three dimensional convective structttres in a horizontal or tilted porous layer....Pages 129-136
Modelisation and simulation of convection in extended geometry....Pages 137-155
Pattern evolution from convective and electrohydrodynamic instabilities....Pages 156-159
Amplitude equations for non linear convection in high vertical channels....Pages 160-171
Stability of cellular systems in Taylor-Couette instability....Pages 172-176
Spatial dissipative structures and hydrodynamic instabilities....Pages 177-184
Chemical structures far from equilibrium....Pages 185-196
Structure defects in Benard-Marangoni instability....Pages 197-206
Non adiabatic phenomena in cellular structures....Pages 207-214
Smectics : A model for dynamical systems?....Pages 215-248
Defects and interactions with the structures in ehd convection in nematic liquid crystals....Pages 249-262
Quantitative study pf the disorganization of hexagonal convective structures....Pages 263-269
Shear modes in low-prandtl thermal convection....Pages 270-277
Spatial instabilities and temporal chaos....Pages 278-284
Temporal and spatial aspects of the onset of chaos in a Taylor instability subjected to a magnetic field....Pages 285-293
Electro-hydro-dynamical convective structures and transitions to chaos in a liquid crystal....Pages 294-306
Rotating disk flows, transition to turbulence....Pages 307-318
Morphological instabilities in the solidification front of binary mixtures....Pages 319-330
Cellular structures on premixed flames in a uniform laminar flow....Pages 331-341
Energy in the Benard-Rayleigh problem....Pages 342-350
Modelisation of thermoconvective instabilities in saturated porous media- lateral boundary influence....Pages 351-357
Competition between marangoni and archimedean forces, to determine the surface profile of a liquid heated, open to air....Pages 358-370
Surface relief accompanying natural convection in liquid layers heated from below....Pages 371-375
On the subject of Gortler vortex....Pages 376-384